Hose-supporter.



7 Patented Sept. 2*, I902. M. "B. HAMMOND.

HOSE SUPPORTEB.

(Application filed Tune 16, 1902.)

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M. B.,HAMM0ND.

HOSE SUPPORTER.

(Application filed June 16, 1902.)

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' citizen of the United States,residing at Bridge-i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MYRON B. HAMMOND, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

HOSE-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,037, dated September 2, 1902.

Application filed June 16, 1902. Serial No. 111,928. (No model.)

To all whom, it may Concern;

Be it known that I, MYRON B. HAMMOND, a

port, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hose-S upporters and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, I

clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain improve; ments in hose-supporters, but more particularly has reference to that class of such de-- vices which employ a pad of somewhat extended area adapted to be secured to the person of the wearer by a belt passed aroundthe waist. v

Heretofore hose-supporters have been made which employ a large flexible pad-like element adapted to be secured to the wearer by a belt passed around the waist, while the stocking-engaging members are secured to and depend from the bottom edge of the pad. In structures like this there is nothing to prevent the lateral displacement of the pad, which normally should hang over the abdomen of the wearer, and, in fact, the pad has frequently shifted laterally toward the hips of the wearer, thereby causing great personal discomfort. Moreover, such a structure will not operate to hold down the front of the corset in order to give the straight-front effect which is now so desirable, since there is nothing to prevent the corset itself from rising or working upward.

The object of my improvement is to obviate these defects; and with these ends in view my invention consists in certain details of construction and combination of parts, such as will be hereinafter fully set forth and then specifically be designated by the claims.

- In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this application, Figure l is a front elevation, partly broken away, illustrating my improvement applied to a corset; Fig. 2, a View similar to Fig. 1, but showing my improvement embodied in a slightly-different form of hose-supporter; and Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view illustrating the form of hook which I prefer to employ for the purpose of connecting my improvement with the corsetclasp.

Similar characters of reference denote like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

Referring to Fig. 1, 1 2 are sections made of any suitable flexible material and having an extended area. These sections are joined together at the top and bottom by short strips of webbing, the strip at the top being denoted by the numeral 3, while the strip at the bottom does not appear, owing to the fact that the sections have been broken away in order to illustrate the application of my improvement to a corset-clasp. There is nothing novel, however, in the construction and arrangement of these sections 1 2, and they merely constitute the pad element of the hosesupporters,which element may be of any suitable shape and construction.

4 is an ordinary belt secured to the upper corner of one of the sections and adapted to be passed around the waist of the wearer and, fastened by a suitable buckle 5, secured to the upper corner of the other section.

6 is a piece of webbing, preferably nonelastic, whose ends are sewed or otherwise secured to the bottom edges of the sections 1 2, and 7 is a hook whose bottom or base portion is so constructed as to provide an elongated opening 8, through which latter the bight of the webbing 6 is loosely passed. The ends of the webbing 6 before they are secured to the pad-sections are threaded through links 9 10, from which links are suspended in the usual manner the stocking-engaging members 11 12.

In applying my improvement the belt is secured around the person of the wearer and the hook 7 engaged over the loop 13 of the corset-clasp of an ordinary corset A.

It is immaterial whether the stocking-engaging members are bifurcated and suspended, as shown at Fig. 1, or whether they are simple straight pieces of webbing suspended from four points of support, as shown at Fig. 2, since both of these styles are old and well known and form no part of my present invention. In the construction shown at Fig.

1 the stockingengaging members are suspended from the webbing 6, and therefore all the strain comes upon the sections 1 2 and the corset-clasp. In Fig. 2 four stocking-engaging members 14, 15, 16, and 17 are shown, the middle or inside members 15 16 being sus- IOC pended from the webbing 6 in precisely the same manner as is illustrated at Fig. 1 with respect to the stocking-engaging members 11 2, while the outside members 14 17 depend from and are secured directly to the bottom edge of any suitable pad 18, adapted to be secured at its upper end to the person of the wearer by means of any suitable belt 19. It will therefore be clear that it is immaterial whether my improvement is utilized in the manner shown at Fig. 1 or in connection with additional stocking-engaging members in the manner shown at Fig. 2, since in both instances the supporter is connected directly with the corset-clasp, so that the strain on the supporters tends to pull the corset down and prevents the pad from lateral displacement. While I prefer to employ a hook for the purpose of engaging over the loop of the corset-clasp, it will be obvious that any other suitable device in the nature of a hook may be employed for engagement either with the loop or the stud of the corset-clasp without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I prefer that the webbing 6 should slide freely through the links 9 and the opening 8 in the hook 7, since an equalization of strains will thereby be efiected and there will be no tendency to distort the pad element; but of course the Webbing 6 may be stitched near said links and opening, so as to prevent any such free sliding movement, and I therefore do not wish to be limited in this respect.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hose-supporter comprising a pad element adapted to be secured at its upper corners to the person of the wearer by means of a suitable belt, a webbing having its ends secured to the bottom edge of said pad, a hook device provided at its base with an opening through which the bight of said webbing extends, and stocking-engaging members suspended from said webbing near the points where the latter is secured to the pad element, said hook device being adapted to engage with the corset-clasp, substantially as set forth.

2. A hose-supporter comprising a pad element, means at the upper end of said element for securing the same to the person of the wearer, the webbing having its free ends secured to the bottom edge of the pad element whereby a loop is formed which latter passes loosely through an opening in a hook device adapted to be engaged with the corset-clasp, and stocking-engaging members having links at their upper extremities through which links said webbing is passed loosely immediately below the bottom edge of the pad, substantially as set forth. I

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MYRON B. HAMMOND.

Witnesses:

F. W. SMITH, J r., M. T. LONGDEN. 

